Acidic Jobs - A Layman's Guide to Job Bliss

Explore techniques for creating robust and ACIDic background jobs in Ruby infrastructure in this RubyConf 2021 talk. Delve into the importance of idempotency and transactionality in job processing, learning how to define and identify jobs uniquely. Examine operational steps, comparing job-wise and step-wise idempotency approaches. Discover the use of Step Batches in Sidekiq Pro for parallel job execution and workflow blocking. Gain practical insights to enhance your Ruby background job implementation and achieve job bliss through ACIDic principles.

ACIDic Jobs A Layman's Guide to Job Bliss
Transactional Jobs
– Idempotent Jobs
Idempotency & Uniqueness To guarantee idempotency, we must be able to define and identify the job uniquely
Operational Steps
Job-wise vs Step-wise Idempotency
Step Batches
Batches are Sidekig Pro's tool to create a set of jobs to execute in parallel and then execute a callback when all the jobs are finished.
Parallel Executing + Workflow Blocking